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    Canterbury Tales, The (1972)

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    Coming between The Decameron and Arabian Nights in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s classic tales trilogy, this bawdy adaptation of Chaucer’s 14th-century masterpiece outraged the purists.

    Pasolini celebrates almost every conceivable form of sexual act with a rich, earthy humour.

    Glorying in the filth and vulgarity of medieval life and the physical and moral grotesqueness of the characters, this is a film teeming with life and insight.

    Pasolini also guests as Chaucer himself, accompanying a party of pilgrims who relieve the tedium of their journey to Beckett’s shrine with a variety of tales.

    Despite winning the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, though, it is often ruinously self-indulgent.

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    Geoffrey Chaucer
    Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Jenkin
    Tom Baker
    Wife of Bath
    Laura Betti
    Cook
    JP Van Dyne
    Pardoner
    Derek Deadman
    Host of the Tabard
    George Bethell Datch
    Sir January
    Hugh Griffith
    May
    Josephine Chaplin
    Damian
    Oscar Fochetti
    Devil
    Franco Citti

    Director
    Pier Paolo Pasolini

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